Houston Texans defensive again Calen Bullock delivered the hit on Miami Dolphins large receiver Grant DuBose that created a scary scenario for the participant on Sunday.
DuBose was down on the sector for a number of moments and medical personnel needed to lower off his jersey and take away his shoulder pads earlier than putting him on a stretcher and carrying him out of the sector. DuBose spent the remainder of the night time within the hospital.
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Miami Dolphins large receiver Grant DuBose is hit by Houston Texans security Calen Bullock. (AP Photograph/Eric Christian Smith)
Bullock advised reporters he didn’t assume he was going to face self-discipline for the play.
“My intention was by no means to go on the market and simply attempt to fully take somebody out of the sport and damage any individual,” he stated, through KPRC-TV.
“My intentions was by no means to exit and damage no person, that’s by no means any of our intentions. So, prayers out to him and his household. I hope he’s good. I used to be simply seeing the ball, and I used to be breaking on the ball, and it simply occurred to be a type of kind of performs.”
Bullock was flagged on the play. DuBose appeared to clench his fists after the hit – actions in step with the “fencing response.”
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Grant DuBose of the Miami Dolphins is stretchered off the sector after an harm throughout the Texans recreation at NRG Stadium on Dec. 15, 2024, in Houston. (Tim Warner/Getty Pictures)
“Very powerful to have seen reside,” Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa stated. “I’m my hardest critic in terms of ball placement, in terms of figuring out the place to go along with the ball and all that. I simply really feel dangerous that I even put him in that scenario to have gotten hit. It was powerful to maneuver on after that occurred.”
Tagovailoa had a number of concussions in his NFL profession – some extraordinarily scary for a reside viewers to witness firsthand.Â
“Everyone knows that I’ve gone by means of one thing related, and that’s no enjoyable,” Tagovailoa added. “You by no means need to be put in any of these conditions, however you additionally perceive that it is a bodily sport. It’s a contact sport. Once more, I simply consider what I may have completed to not put Grant in that scenario.”
It was the second straight Texans recreation through which an opposing participant was injured by a sketchy hit. Houston linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair hit Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence on Dec. 1.
Miami Dolphins large receiver Grant DuBose is introduced down by Texans security Calen Bullock, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photograph/Eric Christian Smith)
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Al-Shaair was given a three-game suspension for the hit.
The Related Press contributed to this report.Â
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